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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
CHICAGO eoooLERs.
Desperate Attempt to Steal Records,l
Timely Arrival Rrexenfs IL

Desperate Attempt to Steal Records-A
Timely Arrival Prevents 1t.
CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-sJtate's Attorney Grim
nell and his assistants Furthman spent yes
terday afternoon ia SPECIAL Counsel Wieg-
ley's Office on business connected with
charges again4t the county commissioners.
At about six. o'clock they went ont to sup
per and Wiegley went home and q few
clerks oriy remained in the Office They
had been gone but y few minutes when six
men-onc claiming to be a constable-wens
up by the elevator and demanded admit
lance. They produced warrant for the
arrest Of "Nic" Schneider on the charge Of
embezzlement, sworn out by his brother
John. He is the boilermaker who was
awarded some of the fat contracts com
planned about, and has been missing for sew
eral days. The men scarcely stopped to
look about the room, but went direct to the
vault, which was locked. When they were
demanding that it be opened States Attor-
ncy Grinnell, Mr.. Furthman and their
friends returned. The argument that en-
sued was sharp and the intruders
were hustled of the premises. 1t is
stated that the real object of the party
was to secure the books of evidence
against the bOOdlcrs, which it was thought
might be in Mr.. Wicgley's Office. Mr..
Furthman intiinated that developments
had reached stage when u more daring
attempt than that just described to frus-
trate the plans of the State would not be a
matter of surprise. It was definitely
learned last night that ''Nic'' Schneider,
the contractor, was in custody and now a
willing prisoner. He has told enough to
show that certain county commissioners re.
ceived money from him and that the paid
employees of the county benefited by his
contracts. Where Schneider has been Sc.
GREETED by the States attorney is still q
mystery. The arrest appears to have been
made without q warrant and was in reality
an abduction, but as the mans books were
seized at the same time, he was at the
mercy Of his captors and has succumbed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
Election at PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.-At the local cleo
ton yesterday neither ticket was entirely
satisfactory and the papers were not united
in the support Of their party candidates, the
result being large amount Of scratching.
The city on straight party vote is Repub.
lican by from Is, 900 to 5000. Returns from
fourteen of the thirty-one wards in the city
give Filter. Republican. for mayor, ma.
jority Of l., 293; and Clay. Republican, re-
ceiver Of taxes, 7.75S. Careful estimates
at midnight place Filters majority at % 00C
ana Clays at from 5000 to 10000. War.
wick, Republican, for city solicitor, is rum
ming ahead of the ticket and will probably
have between 10000 and $1,000 majority
Owing to the extensive scratching the re-
turns are coming in slowly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
Railroad Rack Taxes.

CINCINNATI. Feb. 1G.-County Auditor
Raine. in consultation with States Attorney
General kOhle and State Auditor Kiese-
wetter to-day concerning the tax valuation
to be placed on the big Four and Fort
Wayne railroad stocks. both subiec: to
back taxes since 1851. held that the tax rate
on the big Four about sixty-nine and on
Fort Wayne one hundred. which would be
thirty per cent. below market quotations
The penalties will he knocked of On this
basis the Reuben Springer estate must pay
fully slp.OOO on 1850 shares OF big Four'
and 1850 shares of Fort Wayne held since
ISL untaxed. Other large holders will con-
tribute their thousands to swell the aggre-
gate. Tax Collector Morgenthaler gets
twenty-five per cent. for collecting.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
Minneapolis Flour Mills.

MISNEAroLIs, Mimi, Feb. 1.-THE North
restan Miller says: '.The -four output
showed little change last week, exceeding
5000 barrels daily. Steam power was the
leading factor. The product was los, s75
barrels, averaging 15,4l0 barrels daily,
against 10000 barrels the preceding
week and 5000 the corresponding time in
1856. The output of the present week viii
be cut OWN. the market limiting the use
OF steam. Two mills of over 1000 barrels
capacity using steam closed Saturday, and
another of 1900 barrels will stop o-mor-
row. Ten are in operation now, with q
proouction OF about 1900 barrels daily.
This may be the average the rest of the
week"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
Fatality to an Aged Couple.

CLEVELAND, o., Feb. ia special from
Wooster, o., says: John Baughman, aged
eighty-seven, and his wife, eighty-tive a
wealthy couple living in Dalton, this coun-
ty, met with horrible fate early this
morning. The house was discovered to be
on fire at one O'clock by the neighbors, who
burst open the doors and found the aged
couple in an asphyxiated state. The old
man was dragged out dead, the wife still
living, though not as yet resuscitated. and
Ii Is said that she can not recover. Hon.
john Baughman, of Wooster, the Wayne
County Representative in the Legislature,
is the only son of the aged couple The
lire is supposed to have originated from the
explosion of lamp"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
Monkeys as Farm Hands.

RICHMOND, KY, Feb. Isl. b. Parles, a
substantial farmer living near Kingston,
this (Madison) county has successfully
trained force of seven large monkeys to
work in the hemp fields and to break and
prepare the hemp for the market. They do
the work Quieter and better than the Ee-
groes he formerly employed and at about
one-fourth the cost. 1t required about four
months of patient work to train the ami
mails, but they now do their tasks with
rare intelligence. The monkeys were sent
to Mr.. Parkes by a brother. who is in bust
ness in Cape Town, South Africa. and who
had seen the animals put to similar uses
there. Mr.. Parkes has sent for ten more
of the useful imitators OF human workmen,
six of them to be used by John G. Taylor, a
ncighboring farmer, who is also an exten.
siys raiser of hemp.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
ANOTHER BLIZZARD.

Dakota and Minnesota Visited by q Biz
zard and Snow Storm.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 1S.-One Of the
worst storms of this winter ragged last night
and is not over yet. 1t was preceded by a
fall of rain and sleet which ran along the
tracks of the street cars which later on
froze, making it difficult to clear them so
that cars could run. Early last night il be-
gan showing hard and ut $3.50 this morning
shows the first signs of letting up. Four
to six inches have fallen and a brisk wind
prevailed, causing bad drifts. Trains in all
directions are delayed.
HORRIBLE WINTER.
ST. PIERRE, Oak, Feb. 1S-Another biz
fard is raging and trains are abandoned.
Snow is drifting badly. The county board
IS being appealed to for aid by families
heretofore considered above want. 1: is q
horrible winter for Dakota settlers and
their suffering can not be realized.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
Revival In Shinluilding.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-THE Arrow
Steamship and Ship Building Company, Of
New York City, has purchased the Agncw
ship yard at Alexandria, Va, and will be-
gin ship building operations there on a
large scale. The first vessel to be built
will be called the Pocahontas. This will
be one of the most elegantly fitted ocean
passenger vessels in the world. and the
design of the company is to have her
able to run across the ocean at an average
speed of twenty-three nautical miles an
hour, no matter what may be the condition
of the wind or sea. She is to be completed
and ready for sea before November L.
There are to be twelve vessels of this class
built: the next one to be called the Pow
hatan, and the others will also bear historic
Indian names. The feet will be engaged
in the English trade running from New
York to Liverpool, touching at Queenstown,
as the other lines do now.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
THE SOUTH.

THE life of Governor Richardson. of South
Carolina, was endangered recently by a
negro mailman who demanded money OF
blood. On the negro being arrested loaded
revolver was found on his person.
THE wholesale dry goods and boot and
shoe house Of Block, Oppenheimer q Co.,
of Galveston, Tex, has failed. Liabilities,
S150.O00.
AT the Brasfield trotting horse sale at
Lexington. KY, recently. sixty-four horses
brought 81, 22S5. The best price was $500,
paid for the bay stallion c. F. Clay.
THE Dairymen and Fruit Growers con-
vention of the United States assembled in
jackson. Miss, ON the 18th.
THE Senate Committee investigating the
alleged election intimidation in Washing
ton County, Texas, examined several ne
grOes and Republicans on the 10th. One
witness swore that only four or five voters
could write and they were Democrats.
JUDGE THOMAS NJ. JOSEPH, of Galveston.
Tex, late grand treasurer of the Texas
Odd Fellows, has confessed that he embez-
zled SOB, 1S5. the total funds of the grand
lodge and lost them in mining speculations.
PROF. Z. Z. BARNARD, of the Vanderbilt
University at Nashville, Tenn, announces
the discovery of another comet. II was
very faint and was moving rapidly in
northwesterly direction. Its direction was
in right ascension hours 4 minutes ana 10
seconds, declination south IL deg. 10
minutes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
A DEFAULTER.
A Penltentiary Warden I'm q Fair Way to
Don the Sfrinex

| A Penitentiary Warden I'm q Fair Way ia
Don the Stripes.
| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 19.-Last week
| committee from the State Senate, the
majority being composed of Democrats,
visited the southern penitentiary at Jeffer.
| sonville and made an inspection and investi-
CATION. They reported many Irregularities
in Warden Towards methods. The tenor
Of the report was taken to indicate that
they would recommend his dismissal A
few days ago a committee from the House
Of Representatives majority of which is
composed of Republicans-went to Jeffer-
sonville and commenced q searching in
quiry. The revelations made up to
yesterday caused one member of the
committee to express the belief
that Warden Howard would be dismissed
as soon as possible after the report of
the committee had been read and action
taken, but no one was prepared for the
startling disclosures made to-day When
the Senate Committee made their investi-
CATION, they demanded that the money be-
longing to the State be shown them, and
after some demurring Howard sent to a
bank and 81, 900 was brought to the commit
tee, the members of which were informed
that it was the States money.
The House Committee discovered that of
this $4,000, not one dollar belonged either
to the State or to the warden. Seven thou.
sand of the money was borrowed from
friends for the occasion and $1,000 of it was
q certificate of deposit which Howard OBJ
tanned from a life convict named Saunders,
on promise to secure him pardon. Dep
uty Auditor of State COons has been invcs-
tigating Towards books, and finds that his
accounts are short for large sum-how
much can not yet be stated-but the amount
will. it is thought, range between $4,000
and $4,000.
Howard rendered his resignation
which was accepted by the board
of directors. The steward and the dlrec-
tors of the prison are implicated and the
State will be unable to recover any of the
money for the reason that the directors en-
tertained very high opinion of Towards
honesty and allowed him to act as warden
without giving bond. Howard is under sur
VIGILANCE by detectives, and some of his
friends are also keeping watch on him,
fearing that he will commit suicide. He is
brother of Congressman Jonas G. How
ard, and has been warden of the southern
prison since 1875
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
Montana Cattle Losses.

ST. Paul, Mimi, Feb. 17.-H. E. Simpson.
postmaster at Albright, Mont, writes as
follows: ''Cattle on the ranges are dying by
the thousands. The winter has been com
paratively mild, but we have not had any
chinoOks that we generally have.
Large numbers OF native steers
have been driven into the bottoms
by the storms and are dying like
flies. For days range cattle have been COM
ing into the valley by the thousands, wan
derirg back and forth and until they drop
in their tracks" A stock man of eighteen
years experience writes from Billings:
This is the hardest winter ever expert
elced. Iestimate my cattle loss al fifty per
cent. now and think 1t vii be seventy five"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
VictOria's Jubilee.

CALCUTTA, Feb. lS.-In all the chef cities
OF India yesterday imposing fetes were
held in commemora.ion of the Queens
Jubilee. The celebrations will last three
DAYS. In all the Christian churches and in
the native temples and mosques thanks
giving services were held. A number Of
prisoners, who had been in durcss for debt
or for offenses against the civil or military
law, were freed at daylight.
At Mandalay the jubilee was celebrated
by a parade Of troops and the firing of
salutes. Sir Charles Bernald, chief CON-
missioner, in the presence Of the native
officials, ex-King Theebaw AID Chief
Tsawbwa, made speech, in which he
warmly greeted thee Chinese officials present
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
A Literary Ghous.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Feb. 19.-Warren Rievc,
German editor, was arrested Yesterday,
charged with selling the body OF Ernest W.
Rauch, a friend Of his, editor of Bohemian
paper, to the Maryland University, and
was arraigned last evening, waived exam
ination and was released on 500 security.
Immediately after Rievc's case was dis
posed of the police arrested Prof Harris, q
demonstration. of anatomy at the college,
charged with trafficking in human bodies in
connection with REEVE. He waived exam
NATION and was placed in $500 bail. Charles
Davis, assistant janitOr at the college, was
also arrested OF the same charge for having
removed the body of Rauch from the house
in which he died, without burial permit.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
STORM IN COLORADO.

Three Railroad Trains Blown From the
Track-NarrOw Escape Of Loss Of life.
DENVER, Col, Feb. lS.-A light wind
storm set in over the entire eastern portion
Of Colorado at ten o'clock Wednesday
night, but its velocity steadily increased
till four o'clock yesterday morning when
tho gale reached sixty miles an hour
and continued till the afternoon. In Denver
many buildings were unroofed, smoke
stacks, chimneys, telephone and telegraph
poles leveled to the ground and plate glass
windows broken, causing o loss Of several
thousand dollars. Outside of Denver the
casualties reported are considerably
greater than in the city. On the Denver &
Rio Grande railway, four miles north of
Colorado Springs, every coach Of the north
bound Salt Lake express, consisting Of two
sleepers, two passenger coaches, baggage
and q mail car, were blown from the track
and the mail car with its contents de-
stroyed by fire. Had the accident hap
pened sooner on high embankment q
short distance ahead the loss Of life would
have been great, but fortunately the ground
was perfectly level and no one was injured.
A freight train of sixty cars, side-tracked
near by, waiting for the express to pass,
was also derailed by the wind and badly
damaged. A passenger train Of three
coaches on the Denver Il South Park road,
which left the Union Depot for Morrison at
eight O'Clock, was lifted from the track by
terrific blast and hurled down ten foot
embankment when about twelve miles from
the city. One passenger had a leg broken
and several others were badly bruised.
Near Como, on the same road, the Lead
vile express was blown over bridge and
nearly all the passengers and trainmen Sc
verely wounded and the coaches badly
wrecked. All incoming trains on the various
roads are from five to ten hours late on &C
count Of the storm.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
A Worried Staff.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1S.-The increasing
lack Of high discipline in the Knights of
Labor and the failure of the various dis
trict assemblies to keep close to the sug-
gest.ons Of the general master workman
and his board have made Powderly feel
anxious and worried all his lieutenants. It
is now certain that Powderiy and his
executive aids will soon direct their atten-
ton to curing these troubles. Most of
them exist the worst in the West, and most
of all in Chicago. Powderly said yester
day that his views on the subject of boz
colts were well known. and also of TIE
members of the executive board, who de-
clared that the boycotts against Phil Ar
mour and others in Chicago were totally
unauthorized.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
SHOOTING AND LYNcHING.
A Mob Avenges the Shooting Of a Texa
Deputy sheriff by q Negro.

"A MOD AvengeS the shooting OF q Texas
Deputy Sheriff by q Negro.
NARAsOTA, Tex. Feb. 1S.-Information
reached this city this morning of the shoot
ing and mortally wounding last Monday
Of Deputy Sheriff Upchurch by brutal
negro named Jim Richards, at Bedias, in
the eastern portion of this county, thirty
miles from here, near the Madison County
line. Upchurch had Richards under arrest
on q charge Of theft, and the latter, watch
ing his opportunity, jerked Upchurch's
pistol, large navy six, from its
scabbard and inflicted the fatal
wound, the ball entering his
bowels, passing entirely through the
body, ranging downward and coming out
below the thigh. The victim is still alive,
but the physicians pronounce the wound
fatal. Richards was knocked down and
captured By parties present and placed I'M,
der guard. News of the unprovoked and
dastardly crime spread through the county
like wildfire. Indignation among the
friends of Upchurch increased as rapidly
as the news was told, and about shutdown
Monday evening over seventy-fiye masked
men armed to the teeth took Richards from
the custody Of the guards and swung him
to neighbOring tree. Upchurch was a
good officer and stood high wherever known.
and has wife and child.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
GA 70 vOu n hr;Ioo ~ III. W,cb;n0

fare YOU bride?" the Washing
ton hotel clerk asked her. as the couple
stood in front of the office. None o.
your business, she promptly made an
swer. Excuse me-" said the clcrb
again, ''but asked because we send s
basket of cut flowers to brides When
they visit this hotel. '.Oh," said she
''that's different; yes, l was married
yesterday. john - turning to her
blushing hus5and-''he can send the
flowers up, can't he?'-Wasiingto,i
Critic.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25

To illustrate the power of the I'M
agination to cure, Il physician relates
that being called to the bedside of a
young farmer who was apparently at
deaths door from an attack of hic-
cough, he entered the room in cherry.
<Opetul manner, then took up the can
die from the table and left the room,
saying: Nobody was ever known to
hiccough in the dark" The hiccough
ceased and the patient got well.-Health
Monthly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25

In the grave of one Of the ancient
Indian chiefs at Oaxaca, Mex, re-
Gently opened, an idol of pure gold was
discovered.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
TIE LATEST.

| SlGNOR DEPEETIS has submitted the FOL
lowing cabinet list to the King of Italy
Count Robilant, foreign affairs; Signol
Sarrace, interior; Slgnor Magliani, finance
Signor Wall. war; Signor Briani, marine
Signor Grimaldi, public works.
THE Merchants National Bank, of Dead
wood, d. T., has failed.
| AN extensive plot has been discovered fol
q Polish rising in the event of Russo
Austrian or RussoGerman war. Many
Russian imperial officers are implicated
Twenty persons have been arrested.
THE house Of A. R. Foster, at Otsego
Mich. was wrecked by dynamite recently
No clew to the perpetrators.
! AUSTRALIAN advices by the steamer Zea.
landia state that sixty lives were lost by the
recent floods at Brisbane, Queensland. The
| damage to property was enormous but could
not be estimated.
PHILLIPS Bros, wholesale dry goods,
Baltimore, have assigned. Liabilities,
t2OO.OoO.
GENERAL ROBERT B. POTTER died at New
port. X. L., recently. He was one of the IA
nous family OF sons of Bishop Alonzo Pot
ter, of Pennsylvania
CLEARING house returns for week ended
February 10 showed an average decrease
Of Ia compared with the corresponding
week of last year. In New York the de-
crease was 60
GEORGE ". STRAIGnT's planning rrill and
Schubert's Bros toy factory, 1G5 to 7l3
Center a:enue, Chicago, burned the other
morning. Loss, $4,000. Incendiarsm was
the probable cause Of the fire.
THE recent fire at the American Cotton
Docks. Tompkinsville, Staten Island, iu-
yolved loss. as reported. of Sg00.OUO
ALL but five companies Of the French
troops now in Madagascar have been re
called.
Mrs. CLEvELAND's last public reception
st the White House was attended by about
ten thousand persons.
HENRY OvERsToLTz, of st. Louis, has
been nominated as Assistant Treasurer OF
the United States At st. Louis
THE Senate Committee on Printing has
agreed TO report adversely on the nomina-
ton Of Public Printer Benedict
STRIKERS on the street car lines at East
Cambridge, Mass, raised a small riot on
the 18th non-union Lien being assaulted
and cars wrecked.
THE Senate. on the 18th, adopted the con-
ference report on the Trade Dollar bill.
The River and Harbor bill was considered
IN the House the Committee on Inya..d
Pensions presented report recommend
ing that the Dependent Pension bill be
passed over the Presidents veto.
BUSINESS was fair on the European
bourses during the week ended February
l9. American and Canadian securities
were improved.
THE Legislature of New Mexico has
made train wrcclling and attempted tai,
punishable by death, and has
passed stringent laws against carving and |
using deadly weapons, and against cruelty |
to animals and enacted an anti-polIticaI jury
law.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-09-06

DELEGATE Dubois, and Capt. Put
nam, of the Overland Hotel, Boise City,
arrived here Saturday evening, and
returned Sunday. Mr.. Dubois was
up to interview the people Of this
county in regard to matters they want
presented before Congess. A mail
route to Silver District and one or two
other matters, were suggested, which
he will attend to. Mr.. Dubois is
live Delegate, and has now visited
all sections but the North. He is now
on his way there. He is opposed to an
nexation of any portion OF Idaho to
any other State or Territory, and will
do all in his power to defeat it. he
should have the hearty cooperation
of all loyal Jdahoans. 1t is our be.
lief that Mr.. Dubois will prove to be
the most active, efficient and honor
able Delegate Idaho has ever had
His work thus far Is good cause fol
this belief. The WORLD acknowledg
es a call from the honorable gentle
man and Capt. Putnam.